This fall, many Albuquerque Academy performing arts students auditioned and were selected for All-State. This year’s All-State Music Festival will take place January 7-10, 2015 at the University of New Mexico. Selection for All-State is based on a prepared audition piece along with on-the-spot sight-reading. All participants receive a cumulative score, and are then placed in an […]
Karen Temple Beamish Receives Desert Oasis Teaching Garden Grant
Karen Temple Beamish, science department faculty member and director of the new Desert Oasis Teaching Garden (DOT) and Academy alum Terra Reed ’05 have received a GreenWorks! community action and service learning grant from Project Learning Tree. The grant of $1,000 will be used to set up a rainwater harvesting system for the DOT Garden. Through this grant, […]
Connor Spears ’21 Wins Academy Spelling Bee
Sixth-grader Connor Spears won first place in the Academy spelling bee last week, competing against 18 sixth, seventh and eighth grade students to win the title. The winning word was “billabong.” Zane Peterson ’20 earned a second place finish. The first and second place winners were declared in nine rounds. It took another twelve rounds to determine alternate Zachary […]
Albuquerque Academy Head to Lead New National Education Committee
As he starts his second three-year term on the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) board, Andrew Watson, Head of School at Albuquerque Academy, has been named chair of the Environment Committee. NAIS is a nonprofit membership association providing services to more than 1,700 schools and associations of schools in the U.S. and abroad. The […]
Independent Status for Charger Football
A message from Head of School Andrew Watson If you have attended an Academy football game lately, you have probably noticed that participation in the program has decreased to numbers that raise concern, particularly now that all of our athletic teams have been placed in 5A by NMAA’s new classification model. We petitioned against the […]
Albuquerque Academy Students Featured in Choral Concert
The UNM College of Fine Arts Department of Music will present the music of National Medal of Arts winner Morten Lauridsen tonight, 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Popejoy Hall. The performance will feature a number of groups, including a High School Festival Choir featuring eight Academy students. Also performing are the UNM Concert Choir, Las Cantantes, The […]
Ben Albin to Play Golf at Notre Dame
Last week, Ben Albin ’15 signed a National Letter of Intent to play golf at the University of Notre Dame next year. Ben has been playing golf since he was three years old, and played several other sports until he came to Albuquerque Academy in ninth grade. Ben has played on the Academy golf team for four […]
Skye Watterberg ’15 Cast in Fusion Theatre Production
Update: Fusion Theatre Company has added five more performances, extending the show through Sunday, November 23. Get your tickets now! Skye Watterberg ’15 is cast as Phillipa in the Fusion Theatre Company’s production of Year of the Rooster, by Eric Dufault, directed by Aaron Worley. The regional premiere opens on Thursday, November 6 and runs through Sunday, November 16. Click here for details […]
Speech and Debate Team Named One of the Top 64 in International Public Policy Forum
A speech and debate team of seniors — Ria Mazumdar, John Chappell, Grace Su, and Victor Wu — are participating in the 14th Annual Bickel & Brewer/New York University International Public Policy Forum (IPPF) debates, and have been named one of the Top 64 teams. The team submitted a written essay on the topic “Resolved: Mass surveillance is not a […]
David Welch Featured in Painting Exhibition
An exhibit titled “Aligned with Nature: Landscapes, Gardens, and Farm Paintings” featuring oil paintings by visual arts faculty David Welch and his wife Cynthia Wister, will be on display at the Matrix Fine Art Gallery (3812 Cental Ave SE) from November 7 through November 29, 2014. An opening reception will be on held Friday, November 7 from 5-8 p.m.
